I'm pretty sure this was my second issue of Judge Dredd, but this was Quality: previously I had read Eagle's Judge Dredd #8, and it would be yeeeeeeears before I got to read like that last 8 damn pages of "The Cursed Earth!" But this particular issue was all standalone stories, even if a few referenced past continuity I wouldn't have seen at that point. From 1987, Judge Dredd #7, written by Alan Grant and John Wagner.

"The Greatest Story Ever Told" starts with a cult forming forming around the late Fergie, then escalates to a giant robot Fergie, and ends with a crazed robot programmed by an insane director to finish his epic film. Don't think being a robot will save you from a lengthy sentence! But, I hadn't read the old progs with Fergie yet, nor had I read the tale of Mega-City 1's current mayor, Dave the orangutan. Despite not being able to talk (or perhaps because he couldn't) Dave was an immensely popular figurehead: I don't think the mayor actually had any power or control over the Judges; but he comes to a bad end in "Death of a Politician." (Art for both by Steve Dillon.)

Dredd makes a wellness check on a couple not seen for a couple weeks, and discovers "Something Abnormal about Norman," their robot servant. Who thought they would be happier if they didn't complain all the time, so he strangled them, and they seem much happier now! Dredd is mildly disgruntled when told Norman probably isn't a one-off defect, but a design flaw...probably affecting maybe 14 thousand robots. There's a recall, and Dredd comes down on the head of the robot company, although 10 years for negligent manslaughter feels a bit light: usually, he would be like 10 years, per count, and there were 7 deaths. (Art by Cam Kennedy.)

Lastly, a story featuring Max Normal, one of Dredd's informants. Eh, not great, but it's probably either Brett Ewins or Brendan McCarthy on art. Ah, but the ads throw the doors open for good stuff: Halo Jones, book three! Alan Moore and Alan Davis's D.R. & Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide to Life! Dredd reprints with Bill Sienkiewicz covers! Strontium Dog and Slaine getting their own regular books! And it's a reprint, but there's also a Judge Death special listed; which a brief search didn't turn up online. I know Quality would reprint those stories later, but that looked like a nice package to have them in. The Midnight Surfer book was also hyped, that definitely did come out, but checking this list of Quality titles, maybe that Judge Death didn't make it out the door.

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I thought I might have read this before, but this was new to me! From 1988, Marvel Fanfare #38, "Whatever Happened to the Podunk Slam?" Written by Jo Duffy, pencils by Judith Hunt, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz.

At a girls' home, late at night, one girl seemingly disappears, and a disheveled and confused old woman might have got her. But Moon Knight isn't on the case yet, since as Marc Spector, he's getting a sales pitch from an art curator, who's trying to sell him a remarkably ugly and probably cursed mask. Even with the curse, Marc isn't sold, and doesn't have time for that anyway, since Frenchie has set up a charitable excursion at a local girls' home...taking them to boy-band sensation, Podunk Slam! The girls, and Frenchie, love it; Marc is again unsold. But, he later has another vision from the priests of Khonshu, involving old people that claim they shouldn't be old (join the club!) and the "cursed" mask and Podunk Slam? What connects those three? As usual, it's left for Marc to figure it out.

Moon Knight eavesdrops on the Podunk Slam, who aren't thrilled with the terms of their contract but are pretty locked in. He also visits the girls' home, to consult with a cop (sadly not his usual guy, Detective Flint) who explains kids have been disappearing all over and a ton of senile old folks have been found in their place...feels like there might be a connection they aren't seeing, doesn't it? Moon Knight gets the mask, then confronts Podunk Slam, one member of which was feeling guilty over what was happening: the curse of the mask kept them young and loved, by sucking youth and love out of their fans, and they didn't even make the big bucks, their promoter did! Not wanting to give up his meal ticket, the promoter announces to a packed stadium of young girls that Moon Knight was going to try and hurt the band, and only they could save them!

Swamped by the girls, Moon Knight is going to be torn to pieces, and Podunk Slam has to figure they were probably next, so it's not completely unselfish for them to smash the mask, breaking the spell and turning back into old men, while all the kids that had been aged are turned back to normal. The crowd of girls is less keen to defend, or even listen to, the now old and gross Podunk Slam; but Moon Knight figures they probably wouldn't have been able to do a full set, anyway.  Still, pound for pound, a small horde of 13-year-old girls may be your best defense against Moon Knight; so plan accordingly.

This was from the "Fist of Khonshu" era, but I'm not sure Frenchie appeared in the six issues of that series; or if this story was maybe meant for there but ended up here. Also, didn't the Fist-era costume have an ankh on the chest instead of the moon symbol here? Did that change when he went to the West Coast Avengers? I forget. I also need to keep an eye out for Marvel Fanfare #30, which appears to be from earlier, with the classic costume.

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I recently picked up Essential Moon Knight volumes 1 and 2 from Comic Book Relief: I probably could've bought those some time ago, but held off since I thought I had most if not all those issues. But, sometimes it's nice to have them handy, isn't it? And since the TV show, cheap back issues are drying up; although a reader copy of this one fell into my lap: from 1981, Moon Knight #14, "Stained Glass Scarlet" Written by Doug Moench, art by Bill Sienkiewicz.

In an abandoned church in the Bronx, the lovely "Stained Glass" Scarlet lives, or at least broods; with only her cat Gummitch for company. (Gummitch is such an unusual name I had to look it up, it was from Fritz Lieber's cat stories; he was better known for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.) While she seems to have chess and astronomy as hobbies, she also seems haunted by her past, and almost to be waiting for something. Meanwhile, at scenic Grace Mansion, Steven Grant is enjoying an evening in with Marlene; that gets too heavy when she plays "In My Life" on the piano: it would have been less than a year since Lennon had been shot. Unable to keep playing, Marlene asks Steven to turn on the radio, and gets the same news Scarlet was listening to intently: escaped murderer Joe "Mad Dog" Fasinera was on a killing spree, which seems to hit her pretty hard. "Mad Dog" was trying to make up for time he lost in stir, but placated his crew with the promise of collecting his father's money. Both Moon Knight and Scarlet go into action, with Moon Knight wrapping up the crew. Scarlet had told them to tell Joe, what he was looking for was in the church, but Moon Knight arrives instead, to hear her story: as a child, she had wanted to be an actress, or a nun. She would become the latter, then realized it was only an act, then became involved with a repentant-seeming mobster. Despite having a child with him, she couldn't redeem the mobster completely, and he would later be gunned down after a robbery, with the cash never found. Her son Joe went "Mad Dog" shortly thereafter, and was given life for his own murders.

Scarlet seems determined to try and save Joe, although she seems to have a realistic expectation of success, as in none. Joe demands the missing cash, which Scarlet didn't have, and Moon Knight smacks him down but then catches lead from Joe's hold-out piece. Scarlet puts him down, and as he falls, he pulls the bell rope, knocking the cash out of it. Scarlet walks away, telling Moon Knight his costume notwithstanding, "things are never black and white!"

Current Moon Knight writer Jed MacKay recently put a very different spin on Scarlet in Moon Knight #8, but I was surprised she didn't have a crossbow this issue. I would've guessed she had one from the start! Also, I think more sadness would be piled onto Scarlet's backstory later, but I think after Moench and Sienkiewicz. Read more!

As often the case around here, things have been on blog-o-pilot for the last week or so: I've been out, and it's the brief stretch where it's really hot locally. Maybe this comic will make things seem cool by comparison! From 2008, Reign in Hell #4, featuring "Counterstrike!" Written by Keith Giffen, pencls by Tom Derenick, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz; and "Half Measures" Written by Keith Giffen, pencils by Justiniano, inks by Walden Wong.

No opening recap here, as war in Hell continues, with the Demon and Blue Devil smacking each other around. That's...kind of good on Danny, for going toe-to-toe with Etrigan; but on the other hand, remember when he used to be fun? Two lower-level devils cut out as the fighting gets too close, as that could maybe release something worse...Elsewhere, Dr. Fate visits, I think that's Lady Blaze? about the ongoing Neron problem, but may have said too much and gets attacked by her she-devils. Zauriel meets with part of the Shadowpact, regarding a resistance in Hell, which may also involve Zatanna.

Back on earth, the Etrigan-less Jason Blood is hitting the spell books, trying to find a way to keep the Demon from ever being bound to him again. Good luck with that! But he's visited by Deadman, who warns of Ruma Kushna losing balance: all "infernal" things had been purged from earth, but that was driving her insane. Boston advises, an intervention. Finally, the Etrigan/Blue Devil brawl hits "deep detention," something it took all of Hell to imprison in a "runespout," which of course they then fall into. After a massive explosion, a familiar figure emerges from the smoke...none other than the main man himself, Lobo! The next issue box praised the "frag-tastic" return of the "real" Lobo; what, was there a fake? I was thinking of the later New 52 version, but that was years away.

The second feature continues Dr. Occult and Yellow Peri's journey deeper into Hell, in search of Occult's "soulmate" Rose. They appear to be coming up on a weird techy part of Hell, but not much to that one.

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I feel like I bought a lot of this series on the cheap, solely on the strength of the covers. But seems like every issue had at least two, so who knows how many I've bought? From 2017, Trinity #5, "Better Together, part 5: Deliver Your Children" Story and art by Francis Manapul. Variant cover by Bill Sienkiewicz!

This was the penultimate chapter of the book's first storyline, as Mongul confronts the Trinity, from the dream space of the black mercy. With his 'child,' White Mercy; his plot to escape has nearly come to fruition, thanks to his unknowing partner, Poison Ivy! In the barn at the Kent farm, Ivy has Clark, Bruce, and Diana in a mess of vines: she doesn't know why they're on that farm, but one of them is a solar battery that can be used to free her 'daughter,' the White Mercy, who contacted her through the Green. I don't know why Ivy took so quickly to the child; since it looks like a baby Mongul with a giant ax that looks like it was from the He-Man collection. Lois Lane and young Jon Kent are there too, but I kinda doubt she's going to be able to talk Ivy down.

I was really confused looking at this cover: it was very obviously a Sienkiewicz, but only had "Manapul" over the UPC box. I didn't know much about him, or that he did everything on this one other than the variant! There were 22 issues of this series, and I was going to say Sienkiewicz did eight variants, but he might've done more than that: he did one for the Warlord guest-starring issue that wasn't in the GCD now.

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Look, if I wanna remember it with girls riding dinosaurs, I'm gonna remember it with girls riding dinosaurs.

I've mentioned this one before on the strength of its Bill Sienkiewicz cover, which is so great but also possibly indicative of this company's problem. From 1995, Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe #2, "A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma" Written by Lawrence Watt-Evans, pencils by Mike Harris and James Callahan (page 3), inks by Aaron McClellan and Frank Percy.

This was arguably the flagship of new company Tekno-Comix, and despite having concepts from Gene, additional characters and such from his wife Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, additional additional work from D.C. Fontana and Ron Fortier, as well as a scientific advisor; it is largely unreadable. Having the first issue next to me might help, but only slightly: scientist Alexander Grange has been recovered by Penaltra, an operative for something like the Federation. Wait, their ship's name was the Deliverance? Go to warp nine, I hear banjos...Grange doesn't understand why the planet and the people are completely different from how he remembers them; and as he and Penaltra enter a simulation of the world, they find an inexplicable woman riding a dinosaur. Penaltra thinks Grange is imagining her, possibly not taking things seriously; but after a restart she's still there. The locals describe her as from a nearby tribe of wanderers, but they recognize her more than Grange: no one had been doing research like his studies of the "Old Ones" in decades.

Grange and Penaltra then review a massive info-dump, wherein billions of alien refugees from the Andromeda galaxy settled on the planet Malay, which was then going to be hit by an asteroid. While a missile was able to destroy the asteroid, the explosion also took out the hyperspace beacon, cutting the planet off. Both of them are starting to realize the planet might not look like they were expecting, but while Penaltra discusses it with her crew, the weirdly-pupilless Grange steals a shuttle, intent on finding answers... 

There's an old joke, how do you make a million in comics? Start with ten million! Somebody put some money into Tekno: they also had Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, a couple books from Neil Gaiman concepts, and Isaac Asimov's I-Bots had Howard Chaykin, Steven Grant, and George Perez working on it! I haven't read those, but I liked Mike Danger even if they totally backpedaled off of the original hook for the second series. It definitely feels like they put all of their money and effort into certain aspects, and completely whiffed on the others. Still, I hope this original cover is on a wall somewhere; it deserves to be seen.

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Love Bill Sienkiewicz, but never liked those kids.

So I'm not sure I had actually read this one all the way through before: from 1984, the New Mutants #20, "Badlands" Written by Chris Claremont, art by Bill Sienkiewicz. 

This was the conclusion to the "Demon Bear" saga, with Dani Moonstar already hospitalized by the titular bear that killed her parents when she was a child. As doctors struggle to save her life, the New Mutants fight to defend their teammate, but get sucked into the bear's realm, an America untouched by the white man. The bear's captives, supporting characters Officer Corsi and Nurse Friedlander, are transformed into demons; and the kids fight hard but have no idea what they're doing. There is also an alarming amount of suspicion and in-fighting: Magma figures they'll probably have to kill Corsi and Friedlander to save themselves, while Roberto thinks maybe they shouldn't go there first thing. Rahne and Sam both seem to have a fair amount of distrust for demon sorceress Illyana, who doesn't trust herself much either. Her Soulsword does the trick, though, eventually killing the bear and freeing them all, including Dani's lost parents for good measure.  (Not 'freed' as in to go to heaven or whatever, as usually happens in this sort of thing, but back to regular life, apparently the same age they were when they disappeared.)

With the help of the Morlock healer Storm brings in, Dani is saved from death and paralysis, although she's probably looking at some painful rehab, and is reunited with her folks. Corsi and Friedlander are alive as well, although they were still "red Indians," as Rahne indelicately puts it, and might probably remain so. (They would: Corsi would make appearances in Uncanny and Generation X, while Friedlander would later be killed by Frenzy. No, not that one.)

This issue is more of Sienkiewicz moving to the next level after his Moon Knight days, and is just incredible. Even not really liking the New Mutants, I have to appreciate this. 

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A legbreaker, a therapist, and a prize steer are killed; which seems like a slow news day in Gotham.

Ah, but who killed which? From 1996, the Batman Chronicles #3, featuring "Riddle of the Jinxed Sphinx" Written by Doug Moench, art by Brian Stelfreeze and Bill Sienkiewicz, "The First Cut is the Deepest: the Secret Origin of Mr. Zsasz" Written by Alan Grant, pencils by Jennifer Graves, inks by Wayne Faucher; and "Workin' My Way Back to You" Written by Chuck Dixon, pencils by Gabriel Gecko, inks by Robert Campanella. Cover by the great Brian Bolland.

"Riddle" features, duh, the Riddler--actually, I guess you might've guessed King Tut; but he was a decade or so away from appearing in the comics--in one of his occasional attempts at crimes without riddles. They're clever, well-executed, profitable, and just murdering Riddler inside. His henchgirls Quiz and Query prefer this low-risk work for a middling crimeboss; killing a legbreaker who tried to pocket his take and claim his shakedowns were deadbeats. They rat Riddler out when he reverts to type and sends a riddle to the cops and Batman, which is immediately solved as a crappy pun and possibly a more subtle commentary on the loss of Jim Gordon as commissioner, then replaced by his wife, Sarah Essen. Poor Riddler may be a drooling idiot by the end of this one, on his way to Arkham...

...where we find the secret origin of Mr. Zsasz, already in progress. Chatty today in his little cage, he has a story for his therapist: he seemed perfectly normal growing up, well-to-do, until developing a gambling problem. The Penguin makes a brief appearance, cleaning him out, and driving him to attempt suicide, since he felt he, and everyone else, was nothing more than a robot, a zombie; slave to desire. Before jumping off a bridge, he is interrupted by a bum attempting to mug him for whatever he had left. The future Zsasz overpowers the bum, looks into his eyes, and sees nothing. He makes his first kill, and his first cut-marker on himself. Zsasz then mumbles, and grabs his therapist when she comes closer to hear, killing her.

Finally, Killer Croc's story is mostly silent, as the scaly killer eludes a posse and hops a train back to Gotham: this would be his return after seemingly giving up his humanity to live in peace in the swamps in Batman #522. That story seemed like it would be a perfect ending for Croc, but nope. Croc's trip would've been uneventful, if a prize steer wasn't put in the same boxcar; which is just as good as meal service for him. Read more!

Emma Frost bags out halfway through this one, she's not spending Halloween with kids.

It's August as I write this, and was brighter than the surface of the sun when I went out earlier, but we're still blogging as Halloween a comic as I could find! From 1998, Generation X/Dracula, "Children of the Night" Written by Joseph Harris, pencils by Tomm Coker, inks by Troy Hubbs. (I'm glad the GCD had that, those credits were nearly impossible to read there!)

The cover--an homage to X-Men Annual #6, and the back cover features Bill Sienkiewicz inks!--makes it look like this is going to be fairly straight-forward: Dracula attempting to sway Chamber, with the restoration of his ruined face. (I thought it should be just a glowing, ruined hole; or at least jawless; but Chamber's face is portrayed here as if merely wrapped. He seems less wrecked than Jonah Hex or Snake-Eyes, and that was kind of supposed to be his whole deal!) But the story is more impressionistic and a bit vague: there are multiple dream sequences, vampiric thralls that are magically restored to human in the end, and an ambiguous ending that's probably never followed up on.

Aside from the It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown trick-or-treaters, there are more callbacks to X-Men Annual #6 than I had thought: the 'D' emblazoned scarves Dracula gave to his special favorites, and a character stabbing Drac that probably should've finished him.
(From X-Men Annual #6, "Blood Feud!" Written by Chris Claremont, pencils by Bill Sienkiewicz, inks by Bob Wiacek.)

In this case, it's Husk finally realizing she could change into wood and stab him, but she misses the heart. Rrrrright. There is an interesting moment slightly earlier, when Dracula is about to bite her, and she sheds a ton of skin at him to get away. For Drac, I imagine that would be like trying to bite into an apple and finding nothing but multiple layers of skin: gross, and oddly unsettling. Overall this issue's not in the ballpark of its inspiration (partially because I'm not as attached to the Gen X kids) but it has a couple interesting visuals.


Out of the 1998 annuals oddball pairings, we've blogged X-Men/Dr. Doom, Hulk/Sub-Mariner, X-Man/Hulk. I probably still have Machine Man/Bastion somewhere, but I think I actively skipped Alpha Flight/Inhumans recently. Maybe I might've coughed up for it, if I realized it maybe might have the Stan's Soapbox where he answers a question from me! Collect them all!

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He can fly and is rich, but I'm still not sure he'd be my first call for help...

I know I flipped through the first issue on the spinner rack because of the guest-stars, but after that Dazzler was completely off my radar. I must've had to flip past it when I looked through everything, but looking at some of the covers they didn't seem familiar at all. And up until this issue, they were fairly straightforward super-hero numbers, just with a female lead. I wonder if I would've noticed, or appreciated, this one: from 1983, Dazzler #27, "Fugitive!" Story and art by Frank Springer, inks by Vince Colletta, cover by Bill Sienkiewicz.

This was the first of nine issues Sienkiewicz did covers for, although he did return to ink Paul Chadwick's cover for her final issue. And it's a gorgeous cover, even if it has nothing to do with the interior: Alison Blaire, Dazzler, is incognito in a black wig and on the run with her half-sister, Lois London. Lois was also a mutant, and had accidentally killed a mugger with her melty-hands power; now Alison was "'accessory after the fact,' or is it 'aiding and abetting'? Whatever..." She thinks back on the villains she had faced in her book's run, and the friends she had made, particularly Warren Worthington III, the Angel. But, on the bus to California, she gets an unpleasant surprise when she asks a hooded passenger the time: it's her old foe, Rogue!

Dazzler finds a boom-box, to generate enough sound for her powers, but Rogue smashes it; then steals Lois's power, and melts Dazzler's face! Terrified, perhaps dying, Dazzler channels a the sound from passing truck's horn into a light-blast, knocking out Rogue...and blinding the driver, who goes off a cliff! Luckily, this was just a dream, although Alison does the cliché wake-up scream on the bus, which would probably be embarrassing if she wasn't scrambling for a mirror to make sure she was "...all right! Alive! Pretty!" She wouldn't know, but Rogue was currently in Westchester: this issue was the same month as Uncanny X-Men #171! When much later they were both on the team, it took a long time for Dazzler to accept Rogue; she may have even held this one against her.

At a motel, Alison tells Lois they may have to return and "face the law," but they're interrupted by a knock on the door: someone left a note, with photos of Lois's mugging. Lois freaks out a bit, since that may have meant they were being watched even then, but Alison calls the blackmailer's number, and instead of being hit up for money, they're given a job: murder! Alison plays along, but makes another phone call hoping to reach some back-up.

In a rich neighborhood, Alison and Lois are supposed to kill someone in bed, then rob the joint; but when Alison calls out for Warren the blackmailer appears, dressed like a taller version of the Penguin. (The coloring and stripes match! Also, Alison recognized his voice.) The Angel swoops in through an open window, and is promptly shot; while Alison finds a TV and turns it on full blast: since this is the second time she's done this in this issue, I suspect this was not unlike the Sub-Mariner always having to find water to turn the tide of his fights. Zapping the blackmailer, she then tends to Angel; while Lois looks at the drugged man they were supposed to kill, and they know each other...somehow, it's not gone into here!

The above page bothers me a little, but is pretty typical comic book fight scene shenanigans: Angel would have to be moving at a pretty good clip just to stay airborne; he couldn't hover like a hummingbird. No one should have time to say more than "FFF--!" if that long, before he would have smashed into the blackmailer. I'm also not sure he could just swoop through that window. In the same vein, the bus is drawn as roomier than an aircraft carrier; but that was a dream sequence.

The letters page mentions Dazzler had gone bi-monthly, because it was a special book and needed the extra time. I'm not sure if I buy that...maybe for the covers, though.
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Since Disney just announced his upcoming show, let's go back and look at the first Moon Knight comic I bought: from 1981, Moon Knight #11, "To Catch a Killer" Written by Doug Moench, art by Bill Sienkiewicz.

I would've maybe just turned 10 when this hit the racks, and I don't know what compelled me to buy it. I may have just thought MK's throwing darts were cool. Most of this story revolves around his assistant Frenchie: the great love of his life returns, only to be lost again. Said love Isabelle shows up at Steven Grant's estate, since she knows Frenchie's friend Marc Spector gets his mail there...somehow. Marc knew her, and merely tells her Grant is the name he uses most often these days. Frenchie actually being there should've been a pleasant surprise, but becomes heartbreaking when she's murdered. Frenchie joins Moon Knight on a mission of vengeance to New Orleans, where it is, of course, Mardi Gras. Frenchie gets shot, but still manages to put in the knockout punch. He was also retconned as gay in Charlie Huston's run, which doesn't really line up with this one, but okay.

That inset panel of a downed Frenchie, you can feel Sienkiewicz starting to open it up a bit.

I just double-checked: this issue came out before Iron Man #161, but it is cover-dated the same month as Amazing Spider-Man #220, which I remember reading someone's copy of at an extended family gathering where I was bored out of my mind. Maybe that turned me on to Moon Knight? Could be.
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The goal was more than I could carry, and it was close!

A pretty fun haul at the Lilac City Comicon this year! I did not make a great deal of headway on my bingo cards, although I did get a few Flash back issues, and this little number that I saw and posted on Twitter last week: a Bill Sienkiewicz cover for 1986's Elvira's House of Mystery #7!

(Aside: Adam Strange's classic look there, would've been far out of fashion in the 80's, and I had the feeling this might've been his only cover appearance for some time. Quick check: Adam was in 1985's DC Comics Presents #82.)

I didn't get as many back issues this year, though; because a store from a couple towns over was closing, and had a ton of recent books for a dollar an issue. Although I did get a lot of recent Star Wars, mostly I went with DC books there--I'm surprised too! Finished up Sixpack & Dogwelder: Hard Travellin' Heroz, picked up most of Flintstones and Future Quest, and a lot of recent Batman. And we got a few last issues and a couple 80-pagers that will turn up later. Now, I still have to hit up my comic shop for a couple missing pieces...


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"End of recap!" Four word balloons to fix everything.

From last week--get it now! Deathstroke #11, "Chicago" Written by Priest, pencils by Denys Cowan, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz.

We won't talk about the plot of this issue, except to say it's great! It's really twisty: when you think you know what it is, it moves again. But in passing, Priest fixes the Creeper, reinstating reporter Jack Ryder and his speedo-wearing alter-ego with a minimum of fuss.

I had heard good things about this book up to now, and this may be as much as a fill-in issue--albeit one with a great team! But I wish if not for a full book, that Priest would revisit the Creeper every so often. Maybe as the reporter on the tail of Deathstroke, who couldn't care less...
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I think I've read more Moon Knight last issues than first ones...

Maybe today's book will catch me up. From 2009, Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1, "Shock and Awe, part 1" Written by Gregg Hurwitz, art by Jerome Opena. This issue also includes a reprint of 1980's Moon Knight #1, "The Macabre Moon Knight!" Written by Doug Moench, art by Bill Sienkiewicz and Frank Springer.

Ugh, Vengeance had four variants and a second printing; yet the series would only run ten issues! While following the previous series, this one would backtrack a little bit: Marc Spector was no longer on the run, out of costume, or completely psychotic. Although he still hears his god Khonshu, his voice is now small and easily ignored. Moon Knight makes a splash stopping a bank robbery in broad daylight--take that, Batman! The cops are pleasantly surprised MK didn't kill or maim the bank robbers, and he even seems to have impressed his long time on-again off-again girlfriend Marlene--whom I love, but should know better.

I read this whole series on Marvel Unlimited some time back, but the next issue has the Sentry vs. Moon Knight; I'm not sure I recall it as being any good. Still, this one was worth grabbing.
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